More than one version of Pop Tatari on CD?

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I'm really confused. This is the tracklisting I've seen everywhere:

1. Noise Ramones
2. Nice B-O-R-E Guy & Boyoyo Touch
3. Hey Bore Hey
4. Bo Go
5. Bore Now Bore
6. Okinawa Rasta Beef (Mockin' Fuzz2)
7. Which Dooyoo Like?
8. Molecicco
9. Telehorse Uma
10. Hoy
11. Bocabola
12. Heeba
13. Poy (Mockin' Fuzz1)
14. Bod
15. Cheeba
16. Pop Tatari
17. Cory & The Mandara Suicide Pyramid Action Or...

But I picked it up recently in the store and it has this tracklisting:

1. Noise Ramones (0:31)
2. Nice B-O-R-E Guy & Boyoyo Touch (0:55)
3. Molecicco (2:46)
4. I am Cola (4:04)
5. Telehorse Uma (4:36)
6. Boredom with God on Noise (Boretafari) (1:20)
7. Bo-Go-Bompoo [J. Harris] (7:20)
8. Heeba (3:20)
9. Cheeba (9:02)
10. Which Dooyoo Like? (2:07)
11. Poy (Mockin' Fuzz 1) (4:26)
12. Hoy (4:33); 13. Bore Now Bore (2:43)
14. Hey Bore Hey (1:40)
15. Cory & the Mandara Suicide Pyramid Action or Gas Satori (10:10) 16. TV Ramones (2:59)
17. Okinawa Rasta Beef (Mockin' Fuzz 2) (3:58)
18. Greatborefull Dead (0:41)

What's with the differences, and which is the version worth owning?

― Lee is Free (Lee is Free), Thursday, 1 June 2006 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

these fellas can help u

BOREDOMS FANBOY CLUBHOUSE

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 1 June 2006 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

First is Reprise US version, second is WEA Japan version.

― Dominique (dleone), Thursday, 1 June 2006 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

There's also a third version on Very Friendly in the UK.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Thursday, 1 June 2006 23:39 (eighteen years ago)

By the time the Reprise version came out, I had been listening to a cassette copy of my friends Japanese WEA import for months. I found the US track order to be ridiculously inferior, very arbitrary-seeming where the original version had possessed a bizarre but organic-seeming flow. Soon after, through a series of very odd circumstances, I wound up backstage at a show at Chicago's Metro where Boredoms were "supporting" Mudhoney and I took the opportunity to ask Yoshikawa why the order had been shuffled. His "rimited Engrish" made it hard to ascertain too many details of their reasoning, but he assured me that the sabotage was both totally self-inflicted and totally satisfactory to he and his fellow 'doms.

― Major Bloodnok (Major Bloodnok), Friday, 2 June 2006 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

I agree in that there is very limited flow to the US version. Of course that's the only version I've heard. Apparently Bocabola was originally called Coca Cola on the previous version, but were forced to change it for the US release, not supsiding or anything, but hey, it happened.

― Thomas Mehlt (Tokyo Ghost Stories), Sunday, 4 June 2006 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

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